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Ainu express happiness over new indigenous resolution in traditional ceremony

A traditional ceremony in which Japan’s indigenous Ainu people expressed their happiness to gods and ancestors was held here, following a Diet resolution for Japan to formally recognize Ainu as being indigenous.

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